Marvin N. Kaplan, DMD

German Irish and English Americans are the three largest European ancestry groups in Texas German Americans make up 11.3 percent of the population and number over 2.7 million members Irish Americans make up 8.2 percent of the population and number over 1.9 million members There are roughly 600,000 French Americans and 472,000 Italian Americans residing in Texas; these two ethnic groups make up 2.5 percent and 2.0 percent of the population respectively in the 1980 United States Census the largest ancestry group reported in Texas was English with 3,083,323 Texans citing they were of English or mostly English ancestry making them 27 percent of the state at the time. Their ancestry primarily goes back to the original thirteen colonies (the census of 1790 gives 48% of the population of English ancestry; together 12% Scots and Scots-Irish; 4.5% Irish South 90% were Protestant and 3% Welsh = 67.5% British; 13% were German Swiss Dutch and French Huguenots; 19% African-American Colin Bonwick the American Revolution 1991 p 254) and thus many of them today identify as "American" in ancestry though they are of predominantly British stock. There are nearly 200,000 Czech-Americans living in Texas the largest number of any state, Brutus oil spill Western Gulf of Mexico which is located between Veracruz to the south and the Rio Grande to the north. 4 Brandon Creighton Republican 2014 Kingwood far eastern portions of Baytown, An oil well, Spring Genesis (band) played a concert at the Astrodome as part of the We Can't Dance World Tour on May 9 1992. All of East Texas also lies within the Gulf Coastal Plain but with less uniformity than the climate with rolling hills in the north and flat coastal plains in the south Local vegetation also varies from north to south with the lower third consisting of the temperate grassland extending from South Texas to South Louisiana the northern two-thirds of the region is dominated by temperate forest known as the Piney Woods which extends over 23,500 square miles (61,000 km2) the Piney Woods are part of a much larger region of pine-hardwood forest that extends into Louisiana Arkansas and Oklahoma the Piney Woods area thins out as it nears the Gulf of Mexico West of the Piney Woods are the ranchlands and remnant oak forests of the East Central Texas forests ecoregion.

. Treaties Former United States Senators:, War breaks out in the Pacific (1941), Venues across Houston regularly host local and touring rock blues country dubstep and Tejano musical acts While Houston has never been widely known for its music scene Houston hip-hop has become a significant independent music scene that is influential nationwide Houston is the birthplace of the chopped and screwed remixing-technique in Hip-hop which was pioneered by DJ Screw from the city Other notable Hip-hop artists in the area include Geto Boys Chamillionaire Travis Scott & Megan Thee Stallion. . ; In 2017 the Texas Historical Commission designated the dome as a State Antiquities Landmark Multiracial individuals are also a visible minority in Texas People identifying as multiracial form 1.9 percent of the population and number over 448,000 people Almost 80,000 Texans claim African and European heritage and make up 0.3 percent of the population People of European and American Indian ancestry number over 108,800 (close to the number of Native Americans) and make up 0.5 percent of the population People of European and Asian ancestry number over 57,600 and form just 0.2 percent of the population People of African and Native American ancestry were even smaller in number (15,300) and make up just 0.1 percent of the total population! The Niels and Mellie Esperson buildings are examples of Italian Renaissance architecture in downtown Houston. Designed by John Eberson the two buildings were built in 1927 and 1941 respectively. They are detailed with massive columns great urns terraces and a grand tempietto at the top similar to one built in the courtyard of San Pietro in Rome in 1502. Mellie Esperson had the first building constructed for her husband Niels a real estate and oil tycoon. His name is carved on the side of the building in large letters at street level the name "Mellie Esperson" is carved on the accompanying structure known as the Mellie Esperson building although it is really just a 19-story annex to the original building, After receiving notice from Juan de Grijalva of gold in the area of what is now Tabasco the governor of Cuba Diego de Velasquez sent a larger force than had previously sailed and appointed Cortes as Captain-General of the Armada Cortes then applied all of his funds mortgaged his estates and borrowed from merchants and friends to outfit his ships Velasquez may have contributed to the effort but the government of Spain offered no financial support. . On 27 January 1944 Soviet troops launched a major offensive that expelled German forces from the Leningrad region thereby ending the longest and most lethal siege in history the following Soviet offensive was halted on the pre-war Estonian border by the German Army Group North aided by Estonians hoping to re-establish national independence This delay slowed subsequent Soviet operations in the Baltic Sea region by late May 1944 the Soviets had liberated Crimea largely expelled Axis forces from Ukraine and made incursions into Romania which were repulsed by the Axis troops the Allied offensives in Italy had succeeded and at the expense of allowing several German divisions to retreat on 4 June Rome was captured.